Robert M. Vogel Collection of Textile Industry Records
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Scope and Contents
Collection of materials related to the textile industry including Amoskeag Co. blank forms. Comparisons of wages between foreign and American printeries. Correspondence to H. Saltonstall, Treasurer, Pacific Mills, Boston. Letter from Jess Chandler of Methuen, Mass. addressed to Chandler's niece, April 26, 1937. Document from an unidentified compiler in England describing loss of money from uncertainty of finding a purchaser for winding engines because of threats of throwsters to destroy engines. Bent, treasurer of Mason Machine Works, Taunton, Mass., writes to Chace at Bourne Mills in Fall River, Mass., about measurements of belts for cards and railway heads. Also includes a letter, dated Nov. 19, 1927, from H & B (Howard and Bullough) American Machine Company, Pawtucket, R.I., to Lawrence Anderson, Superintendent, Laurel Lake Mills, Fall River. H & B Co. was a builder of cotton machinery.
Dates
- 1720-1937
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Extent
0.25 cubic feet
Abstract
Collection of materials related to the textile industry including Amoskeag Co. blank forms. Comparisons of wages between foreign and American printeries. Correspondence to H. Saltonstall, Treasurer, Pacific Mills, Boston. Letter from Jess Chandler of Methuen, Mass. to his niece. Document from an unidentified compiler in England describing loss of money from uncertainty of finding a purchaser for winding engines because of threats of throwsters to destroy engines. Letter from Bent, treasurer of Mason Machine Works, Taunton, Mass., to Chace at Bourne Mills in Fall River, Mass. Also includes a letter, from H & B (Howard and Bullough) American Machine Company, Pawtucket, R.I., to Lawrence Anderson, Superintendent, Laurel Lake Mills, Fall River
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Quantity:
0.2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, letterheads, records (documents) .
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- M. Clark, September 05, 2019
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, October 09, 2019
- Cotton machinery industry
- Cotton manufacture
- Cotton technology -- General
- Fall River (Mass.)
- Industrial relations
- Industries
- Invoices
- Labor
- Mill superintendents
- Opening and dusting
- Other cloth fabrication methods
- Pawtucket (R.I.)
- Ribbon industry
- Silk industry
- Silk technology-General
- Taunton (Mass.)
- Textile industry
- Textile machinery industry
- Textile workers
- Wool industry
- Woolen and worsted finishing
- Woolen and worsted machinery
- Woolen and worsted manufacture
- Title
- Vogel, Robert M. Collection of Textile Industry Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by M. Clark
- Date
- October 09, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853